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  1. religion
    The Dark Side of CourtshipShannon and Joshua Harris’s relationship was held up as a model for millions of Evangelicals. Now, she’s reclaiming her story.
    By Sarah Jones
  2. early and often
    The Drama-Lover’s Guide to the New Trump BooksLove gossip but not enough to actually read all the books about Trump? Here are all the juicy, disturbing, and darkly amusing tidbits you missed.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  3. books
    The Fantasies of Josh HawleyThe Missouri senator’s new book, Manhood, is an exercise in cowardice.
    By Sarah Jones
  4. books
    Salman Rushdie Has Lost Use of One Hand, Lost Vision in One EyeHe is still recovering from the attack in August.
    By Bethy Squires
  5. tremendous content
    Jared’s ‘Best-selling’ Book Could Be a Trump Fundraising SchemeJared and Ivanka hawked $75 signed copies of Breaking History to Trump donors soon after Save America PAC made several bulk book purchases.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  6. crime
    Inside the Ransomware Gangs That Extort HospitalsThey shut down patient care and put lives at risk. Would the pandemic finally slow them down?
    By Renee Dudley and Daniel Golden
  7. book deals
    James Comey Trades Memoirs for a Life of Crime (Novels)Murder, he wrote.
    By Zoe Guy
  8. books
    Trump’s FathersTwo recent books demonstrate the GOP’s long descent from reason and a country in serious danger.
    By Sarah Jones
  9. profile
    Mark Manson, the Self-Help Guru Who Burned OutHe sold 12 million copies of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. Then he started taking his own advice.
    By Benjamin Wallace
  10. the national interest
    A Conservative Looks at the History of the Right With Surprising HonestyConservative Matthew Continetti’s The Right debunks his tribe’s historical illusions.
    By Jonathan Chait
  11. politics
    Team Trump Brags About Picture Book’s Mediocre SalesTrump’s predecessors sold far more books. But his low-effort coffee-table book Our Journey Together is still impressive as a moneymaking venture.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  12. literature
    Trump Invites Congress to Election-Lie Book ClubSending every House Republican a book about the “rigged” election just makes him look desperate.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  13. just asking questions
    Sam Quinones on the 1 Million American Dead From OpioidsThe best-selling journalist on other epidemic’s new milestone and what got us there.
    By James D. Walsh
  14. books
    The Spine Collector Saga Isn’t Over YetBernardini’s arrest is certainly the latest plot twist.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  15. q&a
    How Shareholder Capitalism Crashed a Plane (Two, Actually)Talking with the author of Flying Blind, a new book about Boeing’s deadly 737 Max.
    By Moe Tkacik
  16. politics
    In Defense of Donald Trump’s $230 Picture BookIs it funny that his first postpresidential book consists of 300 photos with captions scrawled in Sharpie? Sure. But it’s the perfect move for him.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  17. ideas
    David Graeber’s Possible WorldsThe author of Debt and The Dawn of Everything left behind countless admirers and an abiding belief that society could be changed for the better.
    By Molly Fischer
  18. encounter
    Huma Abedin Is Ready to Tell You Who She IsThroughout a public career and an even more public marriage, the political confidante has remained an enigma, until now.
    By Lisa Miller
  19. books
    The Banality of BonkersBob Woodward and Robert Costa’s new book on the transition of power from Trump to Biden offers plenty of new details but little surprise.
    By Ben Jacobs
  20. inkwell
    Trump Is a Godsend for Book Publishers. He’s Also a Nightmare.Everyone in publishing is sick of the former president. But they keep making books about him anyway.
    By Alex Shephard
  21. american crisis
    Cuomo Set to Earn $5.1 Million for Ill-Conceived COVID BookThe governor finally revealed what he was paid for his pandemic memoir, which is now the subject of a probe by the state attorney general’s office.
    By Nia Prater
  22. politics
    5 Revelations From John Boehner’s New MemoirIn On the House, the former Speaker praises Nancy Pelosi’s “killer instinct,” unloads on Ted Cruz, and claims Mark Meadows once begged on his knees.
    By Jonann Brady
  23. encounter
    The Tech Elite’s Favorite Pop IntellectualJulia Galef on bringing the rationalist movement to the mainstream.
    By Benjamin Wallace
  24. books
    Hillary Clinton Retiring to Mystery Books, Co-Writing With Louise PennyState of Terror is out October 12.
    By Justin Curto
  25. the group portrait
    Book Publishing’s New Power ClubA wave of hires is set to pick up where the reckoning left off.
    By Lila Shapiro
  26. rocket men
    Donald Trump Just Wants Elton John to Like HimHe allegedly wanted to impress the singer with a gift to Kim Jong-un.
    By Devon Ivie
  27. white house
    What We Know About John Bolton’s Tell-all BookBolton writes that Trump was obsessed with giving Kim Jong-Un an autographed CD of “Rocket Man” and pressured China to interfere in the 2020 election.
    By Adam K. Raymond and Matt Stieb
  28. conservatism
    Polarization Isn’t the Problem, But Human Identity Politics May Be the SolutionEzra Klein’s new book on polarization alerts liberals and conservatives to their species’ unifying affinity for identity-based divisiveness.
    By Eric Levitz
  29. reading lists
    The Books Our Political Writers Are Reaching for Right NowA reading list for finding some perspective in a crisis.
    By The Editors
  30. books
    The Politics and Politicians of Millennials: A Q&A With Charlotte AlterTalking climate change, AOC, the youth vote, and the rise of social media as bully pulpit with the author of The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For.
    By Sarah Jones
  31. technocracy
    A Lurkers’ History of the InternetIn Lurking and other new books, writers are constructing an alternative history of the internet.
    By Max Read
  32. language
    Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?The pernicious spread of garbage language.
    By Molly Young
  33. books
    Jane Kleeb Would Like You to Care About Rural America NowThe chair of the Nebraska Democratic Party suggests a change in strategy.
    By Sarah Jones
  34. what the right is reading
    A New Conservative Theory of Why America Is So PolarizedAuthor Christopher Caldwell argues that since the 1960s the U.S. has functionally had two competing Constitutions – and that the straddle can’t last.
    By Park MacDougald
  35. the literati
    Cool Brooklyn Uncle Barack Obama Reveals His Favorite Books of 2019Trick Mirror with a side of Normal People.
    By Devon Ivie
  36. white house
    ‘Anonymous’ Author of White House Book Promises to Reveal IdentityIn a Reddit AMA, the former senior White House official says they will reveal themselves before the election.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  37. the future issue
    In 2029, It’ll Be Harder to Write Science Fiction Because We’ll Be Living ItReality has grown unkind to our creators of dystopian fiction. It’s stealing their thunder.
    By James Gleick
  38. books
    Democrats Lost the States. A New Book Says Activists Are Fighting Back.Journalist Meaghan Winter makes the case for local politics — and local reporting.
    By Sarah Jones
  39. politics
    The Anonymous Senior Trump Official Is Trolling Us AllThe anonymous Trump resister is coming out with a new tell-all book.
    By Sarah Jones
  40. media
    Ronan Farrow’s New Book Reveals Details About Matt Lauer’s Rape AllegationHis new book, Catch and Kill, includes specifics about the complaint that got Matt Lauer fired.
    By Zoe Haylock
  41. hillary clinton
    Who Ordered This Clinton Comeback TourIf Clinton doesn’t have anything useful to say, why put her in front of a camera?
    By Sarah Jones
  42. encounter
    Among the Moderate Chic at Bari Weiss’s Book PartyThe embattled Establishment assembles to celebrate the Times op-ed columnist’s book on anti-Semitism.
    By BORIS KACHKA
  43. books
    In Her New Book, Emily Guendelsberger Makes The Case Against American CapitalismWhen employers treat workers like robots, everyone suffers.
    By Sarah Jones
  44. books
    ‘I Don’t Really Believe In Bubbles:’ Lyz Lenz On Her Book, God LandIn her new book on religion in rural America, writer Lyz Lenz makes the case for nuance.
    By Sarah Jones
  45. whoops
    Here’s an Actual Nightmare: Naomi Wolf Learning On-Air That Her Book Is WrongSomewhere in the pantheon of anxiety dreams near “showing up to work naked” is “learning on-air that your book is totally wrong.”
    By Yelena Dzhanova
  46. what the right is reading
    Why Trump Voters Are Giving the Right Qualms About CapitalismTim Carney’s Alienated America suggests a market-skeptical worldview is gaining traction among conservatives.
    By Park MacDougald
  47. the reds
    Obama Biographer David Maraniss on His Latest Subject, His Blacklisted FatherHis 12th book, A Good American Family, tells the story of journalist Elliott Maraniss and the Red Scare.
    By Nick Tabor
  48. interesting times
    Andrew Sullivan: The Appeasement of Donald TrumpThe angry king is banking every concession and, empowered and emboldened, getting more aggressive and more power hungry.
    By Andrew Sullivan
  49. zoo story
    The Heartland Zoo Tragedy Everyone ForgotEveryone but Carson Vaughan, whose Zoo Nebraska chronicles a misbegotten zoo’s decline and its fatal consequences.
    By Patrick J. Sauer
  50. conspiracy theories
    Even Conspiracy Theories Have Gotten Dumber, a New Book ShowsA Lot of People Are Saying plumbs “the new conspiracism,” conspiracy theory without the theory.
    By Jesse Singal
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